Pesach Lattin

Pesach Lattin is an investigative journalist and the publisher of ADOTAT, where he covers ad tech fraud, programmatic economics and holding company structures, and of The Arizona Inquirer (azinquirer.com), which covers Arizona politics, public safety and power. He started out as an investigator, spent two decades building and running ad businesses, and now reads the filings, contracts and invoices the people he covers hoped nobody would. He hosts The ADOTAT Show. He has retired twice. Neither one stuck. Tips: [email protected], [email protected] or [email protected] (all reach me), or WhatsApp +1 505 932 9060.

Investigations

'Matter of Opinion': New Mexico Livestock Board Blacked Out an Entire Misconduct Investigation

Oct 20, 2026

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'Matter of Opinion': New Mexico Livestock Board Blacked Out an Entire Misconduct Investigation

The board answered a public records request about three former employees with every page redacted. Five months earlier, the state Supreme Court said agencies can't do that.

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Politics

'More Donations From New Mexicans': 65% of Haaland's $19.2 Million Came From Somewhere Else

Oct 20, 2026

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'More Donations From New Mexicans': 65% of Haaland's $19.2 Million Came From Somewhere Else

Both things are true. Deb Haaland has more New Mexico donors than anyone else in the race, and most of her money still comes from out of state, including checks from two of the Permian Basin's biggest oil producers.

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Investigations

'Viable for Prosecution': New Mexico Had an Open Epstein Case Until the Feds Asked It to Stop

Oct 20, 2026

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'Viable for Prosecution': New Mexico Had an Open Epstein Case Until the Feds Asked It to Stop

A former attorney general says his office had live leads at Zorro Ranch when federal prosecutors asked him to stand down. The Legislature's Truth Commission now counts at least five victims there and 30 more possible ones in the state.

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Investigations

'A Bigger Impact': Federal Agents Watched Hundreds of Thousands of Fentanyl Pills Reach New Mexico

Oct 20, 2026

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'A Bigger Impact': Federal Agents Watched Hundreds of Thousands of Fentanyl Pills Reach New Mexico

The DEA let shipments move through Albuquerque from 2023 to 2025 to build bigger cases, three agents say. Four months after the state opened a criminal investigation, New Mexico is still fighting Washington for the records.

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Investigations

'Not About Religion': The North Valley Mosque Fight Ended With a Gun Outside a Church

Oct 20, 2026

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'Not About Religion': The North Valley Mosque Fight Ended With a Gun Outside a Church

Opponents of the Albuquerque Islamic Center said it was about traffic. The record shows threats against the mosque, a Facebook campaign against a priest, two criminal cases, and no one held to account for the threats that started it.

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